EJToday: Top Headlines

"Wildfire Smoke Descends Across Central US, Causes 'Unhealthy' Air Quality" [9]

"The sun looked orange as it shined through a thick blanket of wildfire smoke on Tuesday across a large area of North America, including in Denver, and the smoke could spread even farther in the coming days."

"The sun appeared orange and red through a layer of haze on Tuesday morning as a large blanket of wildfire smoke covered part of the central United States and Canada.
Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Forests [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Canada [19]
Source: AccuWeather [20], 07/26/2024
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"Pesticide Exposure As Risky As Smoking, Study Finds" [21]

"People who don’t farm, but live in US agricultural communities where pesticides are used on farms, face an increased cancer risk as significant as if they were smokers, according to a new study."

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [26], 07/26/2024
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"How ‘Carbon Cowboys’ Are Cashing In On Protected Amazon Forest" [27]

"A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest."

Climate Change [11]
Forests [13]
Public [17]
South America [28]
Source: Washington Post [29], 07/26/2024
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US Targets Emissions of N2O With Eye Toward US-China Climate Agreement [30]

"Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from U.S. chemical plants could reduce greenhouse gas emissions at little cost. Similar plants in China offer a “far bigger prize.”"

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Asia [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 07/26/2024
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"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?" [33]

"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [36], 07/26/2024
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"Surge In Electricity Demand Boosts Coal Use — IEA" [37]

"Coal remains the largest source of power globally despite its decline in the U.S."

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [39]
Source: E&E News [40], 07/26/2024
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"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State" [41]

"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."

Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [43]
Source: Grist [44], 07/26/2024
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Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?" [45]

"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."

Environmental Politics [34]
Journalism & Media [46]
Public [17]
International [39]
Source: BBC Sport [47], 07/26/2024
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"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants" [48]

"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [49], 07/26/2024
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"Not a B Movie: Sharks Are Ingesting Cocaine In The Ocean, Scientists Find" [50]

"Scientists in Brazil have come up with the first evidence that sharks are being exposed to cocaine."

Biodiversity [51]
Chemicals [23]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [53]
Wildlife [54]
Public [17]
South America [28]
Source: NPR [55], 07/26/2024
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"Wildfires Across Western U.S. And Canada Force Thousands To Evacuate" [56]

"Wildfires are blazing across western U.S. and Canada, prompting thousands to evacuate, shutting down highways and fouling the air quality over several states."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Forests [13]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Canada [19]
Source: NBC News [57], 07/25/2024
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"Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate" [58]

"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [59], 07/25/2024
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"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds" [60]

"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [23]
Consumer [61]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [62], 07/25/2024
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EPA Takes Next Step Toward Banning Vinyl Chloride [63]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed designating one of the toxic substances spilled by a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a high-priority chemical under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the next step to a full ban."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Studies [64]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [65], 07/25/2024
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California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law [66]

"State regulators could have asked oil companies California Resources Corp. and Aera Energy for an estimated $2.4 billion to guarantee wells are plugged but decided they didn’t have the authority to do so."

Energy & Fuel [38]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
California [67]
Source: ProPublica [68], 07/25/2024
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